thief-taker

noun

Someone whose job it is to find and capture thieves.

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Meanings

nounthief-taker (plural thief-takers)

plural thief-takers

  1. historicalSomeone whose job it is to find and capture thieves.

    In the later 1690s Rewse became a successful thief-taker, reaping large rewards for the capture of Jacobite conspirators, clippers, and coiners.

    2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 63
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